paper

The plane-wave spectrum from the worldsheet

arXiv:1805.12155 · doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2018)109

Abstract

We study string theory on backgrounds with mixed flux using the hybrid formalism of Berkovits, Vafa and Witten. We solve the worldsheet description of the theory completely in the plane-wave limit. This constitutes a direct derivation of the plane-wave spectrum from the worldsheet with mixed flux.

32 pages; v2: version accepted by JHEP